Do you have somebody replacing you while in suspension?
I can't say agree with your decision, even while I feel your pain. We all have to live with the current setup but nevertheless we can't and do not just throw the towel.
So, I would like to ask you to rethink this decision once more. If everybody did as you plan to do, we would blow this release.
I think you (Hartmut) should think about this a little bit more.
The current system
a) has a "release" every 3 months or so. b) almost guarentees that every release is better than the previous one c) is intended to "de-couple" the efforts of an increasing number of developers.
Looking at the release test matrix, I only see a few failures for python and none for dave's other libraries. This suggests to me that issues in these libraries are not urgent and could wait another three months or so without hurting anything.
But why suspend maintenance then?
In fact this situation happens all the time in that a developer/maintainer works in "spurts". It's nothing new that things won't make the anticipated date. What is new is an explicit announcement thereof - must of us prefer to lie low in such circumstances.
I definitely appreciate Dave's openness, even if I have the impression he's not entirely honest (mainly with himself, I guess). But who am I to judge?
On the other hand, if this is about changing to git from SVN then it would be an entirely different subject.
Indeed. Regards Hartmut --------------- Meet me at BoostCon www.boostcon.com